Ahmad Farroukh is leaving as CEO of MTN South Africa to take up the top job at Saudi Arabia’s second largest telecommunications operator, Etihad Etisalat, which trades at Mobily. Farroukh, who has been CEO of MTN for the
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Privately held telecommunications provider Vox Telecom has launched an uncapped voice product for consumers that have fibre-to-the-home broadband. The product provides unlimited calls to mobile phones as well as national and local
Only 27% of cellphones sold in Africa and the Middle East in 2019 will be feature phones. The vast majority will be smartphones, according to new research from International Data Corp
Communications regulator Icasa and the National Consumer Commission have signed a memorandum of agreement clearly setting out which type of consumer complaints each will deal
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has been accused of incurring traffic fines of R18 000 in the name of another motorist after allegedly driving with falsified number plates and deceiving law enforcement agencies, Bloomberg reported on Friday
City Power and the City of Johannesburg will not be load shedding in the city on Friday, following the application of a range of load limiting interventions. “During this period of constrained supply, City Power
A group of striking MTN workers on Friday blocked 14th Avenue in Fairlands, north of Johannesburg, said metro police. The workers were demanding bigger bonuses and annual salary increases. Chief superintendent Wayne Minnaar said: “The road is
Uber is coming under increased pressure as trade union federation Cosatu is now taking aim at the Internet ride-sharing service. Opposition to Uber has become evident among rival metered
Telkom has rejected claims that it is employing the same techniques used by malicious hackers in so-called “man in the middle” attacks to edit code on websites in order to serve the telecommunications operator’s own content to end users. Johannesburg
Three men walk down a quiet Cape Town neighbourhood road carrying a stolen flat-screen television, seemingly unaware their movements are being scrutinised. A resident peeping out of the window logs a call to the Western Cape crime channel on